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Nola
transwallacea
sp. n.
Nola transwallacea
(holotype) |
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7-8mm. The male antennae are bipectinate over the basal section. There is some
sexual dimorphism in forewing pattern, females having a more extensively pale
and yellowish medial area. Outside this, the forewings are traversed by a series
of diffuse, slightly zig-zag brown fasciae that are mostly clearly defined at
the distal margin, where the postmedial and submarginal are both indicated by a
sharp boundary between dark brown and pale fawn. The hindwings are grey-brown,
distinctly darker than the medial area. The male genitalia (Seram specimen) and
abdomen suggest a relationship to spinivesica. The eighth sternite has
apodemes closely associated at the centre as in spinivesica, but those of
the tergite form part of a much longer, catapult-like structure. The valve bases
are somewhat expanded and invested with long hairs as in spinivesica, and
the ventral arm is much narrower than the dorsal one, but tapers to an apical
spur rather than being rounded, and the harpe is smaller, more spine-like. The
aedeagus vesica has a triangular sclerite with coarse spines along the edge
rather than a scattering of small spines throughout. The female genitalia are as
illustrated, with two signa, one much larger than the other.
Holotype
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BRUNEI: 3m, Anduki, secondary veg. 7.1.1980 (R. Fairclough), BM noctuid
slide 17632.
Geographical range. Borneo, Sulawesi, Seram (slide 17768).
Habitat preference. Material from throughout the range is mostly from the
lowlands, taken in disturbed and cultivated localities as well as primary
forest.
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